Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World

2015 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC2015) Pub Date : 2015-09-03 DOI:10.1109/IHTC.2015.7238038

A. Khamis

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Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is, at the present time, a serious problem of political, economical, environmental and humanitarian dimensions in many countries over the world. In order to foster robotics research and its applications in the area of humanitarian demining, Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World has been initiated as first outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining. This competition aims at raising the public awareness of the seriousness of the landmines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs) contamination and fostering robotics research and its applications in the area of humanitarian demining in the world. In this competition, each participating team constructs a teleoperated/autonomous unmanned ground/aerial vehicle that must be able to search for underground and aboveground anti-personnel landmines and UXOs. The position and the type of each detected object are visualized and overlaid on the minefield map. The robot must be able to navigate through rough terrain that mimics a real minefield. This paper describes this competition, discusses the motivation behind it and summarizes the lessons learned from this initiative.

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扫雷者:迈向无地雷世界

目前，探测和清除杀伤地雷在世界上许多国家是一个政治、经济、环境和人道主义方面的严重问题。为了促进机器人技术的研究及其在人道主义排雷领域的应用，“扫雷机:迈向无地雷世界”作为第一个关于人道主义排雷的户外机器人比赛已经发起。本次竞赛旨在提高公众对地雷和未爆弹药(UXOs)污染严重性的认识，促进机器人技术的研究及其在世界人道主义排雷领域的应用。在本次比赛中，每个参赛队都要建造一个遥控/自主无人地面/飞行器，该飞行器必须能够搜索地下和地上的杀伤人员地雷和未爆弹药。每个检测到的目标的位置和类型被可视化并覆盖在雷区地图上。机器人必须能够通过模拟真实雷区的崎岖地形。本文描述了这次竞赛，讨论了其背后的动机，并总结了从这次活动中吸取的教训。

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